Hi Jon, 

I thank for your advices. I'm not familiar with file devices.

In fact, sg0 is the changer(autoloader)
sg1 is the tape drive

So my no rewind tapedrive is /dev/nst0, right ?


----Message d'origine----
>Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:16:37 -0500
>De: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
>A: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>Sujet: Re: DL-0101H (DLT8000) on RH7.3
>
>On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:15:51PM +0100, Ismaël BALLO wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Before using my tape changer, I would like to check the DLT
>> but i don't find good results. Is this me or my hardware is not good ?
>> How could I find simply that harware works ?
>> Here are the file devices 
>> /dev/sg0 et /dev/sg1
>> 
>> 1st command :
>> mtx -f /dev/sg0 status
>
>
>> 2nd command:
>> mtx -f /dev/sg1 status
>
>
>Do you have one or two tape "changers".
>
>If only one changer, I don't care how many sg, or "scsi generic"
>devices you have, you should only expect one of the devices to
>be the correct one.  sg0 looks good.
>
>But, be aware that sg0 is NOT your tape drive.  It is the changer
>mechanism.  The tape drive is one of your "st" devices.  Generally
>amanda will want to work with the "no rewind" version of that
>device, so "nstXXX" is the device to use generally, not "stXXX".
>
>To access the tape drive from the command line you use the mt command,
>mt for the tape drive device ({n}stXXX),
>mtx for the changer device (sgXXX).
>
>-- 
>Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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